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17.10.2005
WARA October 2005 News Letter, Click Here


30.9.2005
Petone Rowing Club Dinner and Trivia Evening,
Sunday, 6 November 2005
6.00pm Dinner, 7.30pm Trivia Evening starts
Venue: Regatta Restaurant, (above the Club House) The Esplanade, Petone
$35.00 per person

Please pass on copies to those without email.

Start to get your teams of six together (a work group, family group or group of friends)

Look forward to seeing you all for a great night of fun!


12.8.2005
NZ Rowing High Performance Program, Click Here


11.8.2005
The Wellington Rowing Association has selected the rowers who will train for and take part in the Inter-Provincial Regatta to be held at Lake Karapiro from 1-2 October 2005. The regatta caters for squads of both Open and Under 21 Rowers - Men and Women.

Congratulations to the following Petone Rowing Club members who have been selected:


24.7.2005
It is with pleasure that the PRC thank Dimac Bins Ltd for sponsorship in kind, providing collection of rubbish from the Clubs wheelie bins. http://www.dimac.co.nz/


24.7.2005
It is with pleasure that the PRC thank Pacifica Shipping who provided assistance in transporting our boats by inter Island Ferry from Wellington to Lyttleton return for the National Rowing Championships in the 2004/2005 season)


23.7.2005
By Colin Luu.
Post Mauwatu Grunt
Everyone had a blast and a huge sigh when the race finished after 27 minutes of pure hardcore rowing, the results are still a bit sketchy as some crews mysteriously place better from last place...

The race was a real test of coxswains as there were strong wind gusts, huge swells and awkward corners placed around the course.

A sausage sizzle was held afterwards to feed the hungry rowers after their 5.12km journey through lake Horowhenua. Trouble arose when the two front forks jock wheel on the boat trailer bent apart and fell off, leaving us unable to load boats until a solution was found. Arriving back at petone after a long car trip the crews were all to worried about the Wellington Open event of the Enduro ergs held in
Petone as the venue, and started to clean the place while boat unloading at the same time Talk about work load managment!

All and all the day was a success and all the crews came away with a big grin on their faces!
Also a big thanks to Tim Hewitt for running the petone show, Bruce for running the whole show
and All coxswains and Rowers for doing their best!

24.5.2005
Two long time Petone Boys 'Hunter Tretheway and Rees Ward' have been achieving great success rowing in England, for London Rowing Club, here are photos from the Wallingford Regatta 2005 - The Boys - click here , the Boys part 2 - click here and the Boys Part 3 - click here.

Rees and Hunter are racing at the Henley regatta on the 2nd of June, for details click here
Click here to email Rees or Hunter to share your comments.


21.5.2005
Notice and Agenda for the PRC AGM to be held Tuesday 7th June 2005 Click Here


10.5.2005
By Colin Luu,
Well what can i say... 500m team relay on ergs... lots of jelly feet ha ha

The deal was to do 500 m as fast and as hard as you can then hop off and run to a line before the next person can start theirs 500m and so on...

but before all of that some of the boys decided to go for a ROW.... flat as water and due to turn to Sh!t soon, but no greg advice did not adhere to them and they went out for a paddle....

They go SWAMPED big time and if it wasn't for Tim, Ben and Colins help they would have never turned that boat over ha ha while later on Lisa comes in carrying her boat which also got swamped down by the museum.. and had to walk the full 500m carrying her boat, what a crap day then having to do ergs after ha ha. Then straight after the ergs it was a ab hold, press up hold squat hold exercise that Greg usually does, but not after what we have just gone through!!!

But as they saw the more you sweat the more you party

1.5.2005
Petone Rowing Club Annual General Meeting 2005
Date - Tuesday 7 June 2005 at 7.00pm (Note date Change)
Venue: The Clubhouse, 160 The Esplanade, Petone
The documents to be presented at the AGM will be added to this site soon

23.4.2005
Another Successful Prize Giving Regatta held at Petone Rowing Club - Saturday 23 April 2005

The sun shone, the water was great, and all those people young and old, enjoyed a fun day of racing in mixed crews, made up of young and old, Men and women. We gathered at about 10.00am, and racing started at 11.00am approx. We enjoyed a leisurely brunch at the Regatta Restaurant at the Club Rooms, then continued racing into the afternoon. The racing had finished before the weather changed for the worse and we adjourned to the Regatta Restaurant for dinner and Prize Giving at approximately 6.00pm.

The following Trophies were awarded:

Congratulations to all rowers and coxswains for a very successful season (2004/2005), at Regattas, and at the Nationals

To our busy coaches, Nestar Russell, Jan Maureschat, Roy Pickard and Greg
Stothers, a big Thank You. Rowers and parents appreciate your hard work. We
thank your partners and family members for allowing you to spend so much
time with this important task.


19.4.2005
Prize Giving Regatta
Saturday April 23, 2005, 10.00am
Races Start at 11.00am
Brunch at 12.30pm
Dinner at 6.00pm
Cost for Brunch and Dinner $30.00 each
Come and enjoy a fun day

15.4.2005
2005 U18 NZ Championships & Junior Trials, Twizel, 16-22 April 2005

Aalysha Pullar from our Club is competing as part of the North Island Women's under 18, eight.

Maadi has come and gone and this Saturday New Zealand's U18's and Junior's (U19) are gathering in Twizel to row some more.

U18's - The North Island and South Island do battle to see who will win the "MENZIES TROPHY"

Each Island team has a women's and a men's coxed quad and a women's and a men's eight.
The quads are split in 2 singles and 1 double and the eights are split in 2 pairs and 1 four.

Sunday is rigging and training. Racing (over 2000 meter) begins on Monday and Tuesday mornings with singles, doubles and pairs - leaving the afternoons for training in the quads, fours and eights. Wednesday is race-day for the quads and fours and on Thursday the eights come speeding down the lake. Friday morning before they brake-up the U18's race the newly selected Junior crews.

Juniors - Trials to find a women's coxless four and a men's eight to represent New Zealand at the Junior World Rowing Championships in Brandenburg, Germany.

There are 14 girls competing for 4 seats and 16 boys competing for 8 seats and 2 coxswains competing for 1 seat. Sunday is racing on ergs over 2000 meters and measuring - each rower is measured for height, span, body length, leg length and weight - as well as rigging the pairs.

On Monday they start the seat racing in pairs over 1500 meters and each race is timed. By Thursday lunchtime seat racing continues in eights. Friday morning before they brake up there is the battle between the U18's and the Juniors.

11.4.2005
Well done to Lisa who made the A finals and finished 7th overall while Abby,Ellen and Alysha did fine for their grades as well!!

Hamilton boys took the cup home this year though... The lady from the breakfast show was there and presented medals for one race! The trip was successful and everyone enjoyed it!

8.4.2005
The guys went out for a row this evening with a three novices in the boat, everything went well and the novices behaved likenovices really, Fiona and Jen were out in a double until we rowed past them and they were really out of a double! Some novi girls went out in a quad and made it back safely, The older guys came later after work etc, Liam was out in a Single for his first time after Robin went in the drink
on yesteraday all the way out towards somnes island!!

Observation has lead to a conclusion of the girls rotatiaing around a certian group of girls, The Nucleus in other words.. Erin Monique Shelton and the guys are doing their weights and training as their season has already started for them.,


2.4.2005
Colin,Greg,Matt,Liam,Patrick and Jacob did the hard yards for the sake of funding for club on Saturday by doing a fundraiser for Viv at Carboglass, where the guys did gardening and an bit of labour work inside the workshop. You know shifting this and that, Destroy'n this'n that. 9 am was the announced start time but no one really turned up till quater past(Jacob second) the later on Liam and the rest came another 15 mins later...
But the job was done at 1pm and feeling hungry, everyone wanted to go home by then. it was a hard days work and money was made.ls.

30.3.2005
The Petone Rowing Club AGM will be held Tuesday 3 May 2005 at 7.00pm - Watch this space for details.

29.3.2005
Saturday 23 April 2005 - Petone Rowing Club Prize Giving - Watch this space for further details.

29.3.2005
Best wishes to the following Petone Club Rowers representing their schools at the 2005 NZSSRA Championship Regatta - Lake Karapiro 3rd to 9th April:


23.3.2005
Alysha Pullar has been selected as a reserve for the North Island Under 18 Rowing squad which will compete against the South Island during the NZ Junior Trials at Lake Ruataniwha from 16-22 April


6.2.2005
Colin Luu - The Petone Rowing club has come away from the Wellington Champs very succesful in their races, along with 3 cups and everyone with at least one medal  hanging around their necks.

The Novice Mens crew won their eights race, and the Petone Composite crew with Horowhenua won the mens Premier Eight in the atrocious water that formed later on the day, one Petone boat swamped and another in 1st place with one other crew from Wellington having to have half their crew abandon their boat fearing the boat will be swamped.

3.2.2005
Greg Stothers - Thursday the 3 February was one of the best morning to row on the harbour, dead calm , eerie in fact the hole club was making us of the water at 6am , the only question was which way to go? so we all went in different directions the club women's 8+ along the beach the UN21 women 4+ not far behind the Novice mens 8+, EM and Tash in singles heading out to the island, .

Ben and Dave in the double heading in and out from the club. And Tim who was a little later than the rest of us heading along the beach .

Well the fog was not to thick, you could see past the end of the eight. After rowing for 15min the eight should have been close to the island well we were a little wrong, as we had just gone past a buoy marking the yacht course near Point Howard, We stooped and changed direction heading into the
very light swell, rowing for the next 10min the island should not be to far.

The swell changed direction , as you may have guessed buy now we were a little lost, the fog had got thicker, the ships fog horns blearing out loud. 2min later out of the fog! We knew we had gone in a complete circle as we passed that same buoy. Now the coach stops the crew. We can not see 50
meters what to do? we sit quietly we here the gulls on the island and the road noise of the motorway all in the other direction . well if we had kept going we may have been having Breakfast in Eastbourne or on our third loop around that buoy........
Tim's adventure that morning is another story he will be writing it ....

 

30.1.2005
Colin Luu - The novice mens eight went up to horowhenua to train with horowhenua rowing club...
new goals were get and some new training techniques were used ie. sand dunes... all and all it was a succesful weekend.

17.1.2005
Woolworths Rosebowl 2005. Final Results - Click here to review:

Erin -Monque Shelton has scored again being awarded Wellington schools Sportperson of the Year for 2004 and the Wellington schools Rower of the Year for 2004.  Congratulations Erin.....

7.1.2005
Norton Cup 2004 Final Results - Click here to review:


14.11.2004
After many years the Club's large boat trailer has been renovated and is back in action. After several years off the road this means that we can get a full muster of boats to a regatta on one trailer for the first time for several years.  The club hires a tractor unit to tow the trailer.

Many thanks to Greg Stothers with the guidance of Dick Joyce to achieve this. With several changes to heavy transport regulations considerable research and work has had to be put in to get the unit back onto the road.

12.11.2004
Erin-Monique is currently buried in her final end of year bursuary exams at St Orans College.
She has been offered a Rowing Scholarship at the University of Tennessee. She starts the scholarship in Sept 2005 and will be pursuing a Graphics and Art Design degree over the four year scholarship.

When she has finished her exams we will get her to tell the exciting parts of the story herself as Tennessee have a major rowing mission in progress at present and we believe their womens
eight have hoisted from 50 something on the US Inter collegiate circuit into the top ten this year.

All Members of the PRC wish Erin Monique Shelton the greatest success in her international ventures, Erin has received a scholarship in the USA,

 

8.11.2004
Congratulations from all members to Coach Jan Maureschat and his partner Nicola Aukett on the birth of their daughter Danielle Bijanca Aukett.

6.11.2004
Excellent results to all members of the club members who raced in the QUEENS Cup regatta at Levin on 6 November 2004. What a great effort, Petone came 2nd overall,  it came down to the last event, the two divisions of the Mens Novice 4+.

At the penultimate race the potential winner of the regatta came down to three clubs. Petone on 59 points / Star Boating club & Wellington RC on 60 points. Division one consisted three Wellington Crews & three Petone crews. Division two four Star crews and one Porirua.

They sent division two off first. And as we watched them come down to the finish it was Star / Porirua as the cross the line. That meant Star had 65 points, we need to get 1st & 2nd to win by one point, and as our crews came towards the finish line that's what we had happening. Everybody screaming encouragement, but unfortunately one crew caught a major crab and stopped "bugger". Unfortunately this allowed a Wellington crew to take 2nd, and STAR to win the regatta by one point from Petone. Congratulations to Alan Greer and the Star Crews on their win and the the crews of Wellington, Horrowhenuwa, and Porirua for a great days racing.

7.10.2004
Petone Rowing Club is proud to announce that Erin Monique Shelton qualified at her
Youth Olympic trials and made the New Zealand Youth Olympic squad.

We encourage you to email Erin with your comments and support at e_mshelton@hotmail.com

A personal message from Roy... I always knew you could achieve an NZ`squad, you have the tenacity to push yourself and strive for what you desire. As your old coach you made me very proud … Roy

7.10.2004
COACHES WANTED.  With New Zealands success at the Olympics, Petone Rowing Club has had an amazing influx of new people interested in becoming part of this great sport.  Are YOU an old rower / cox /coach would you like to get back into the sport, by helping out with new novices or established crews.

YOU don’t have to go hard out – if you have some one you can share a crew with is the option.
We all have busy lifestyles.   WE NEED YOU if you are interested please contact Roy Pickard Club Captain at Captain@PetoneRowingClub.com

6.10.2004
The Porirua Goodwill Regatta will be held on the 16th October 2004, Porirua Harbour
You are welcome to come and support the club.


5 .10.2004
Once again Petone Rowers are involved in the heat of the action at the Inter-provincial regatta at Lake Karapiro. We wish to acknowledge the efforts and rewards achieved over two days of racing by
Darren Whetton who rowed as the traveling reserve for the Open Men's crew. Darren competed in the Men's Spares 1x race and took 1st place by a good distance on both days, and justly received his medal.

Ben Norling completed in a number of events and came away with a medal when the Open Men succeeded in the MO 8+.

Tim Hewitt who competed in a number of races … was in the MU21 8+ who were beaten into 2nd place by the Auckland U21 crew.

Our female U21 members of Erin Pickard, Ellen & Abbey Wilson together with Sara Press from Star Boating Club managed to gain 2nd place on both days in the WU21 4-, being beaten on both days by an Auckland U21 crew. Ellen & Abbey also gained a 2nd placing on the final day in the WU21 2-.

4.10.2004
 Final Redding Shield Regatta Results,   Petone Rowing Club win !!!, click here for further details:

4.10.2004
 Hutt News Article Regarding Petone Rowing Club, click here for details:


28.9.2004
 Congratulations to Erin-Monique Shelton for being approached to trail for the New Zealand Youth Olympics team, this coming Saturday. Good luck Em!!!!


28.9.2004
This weekend we have 5 rowers from Petone competing in the Inter provincials Championships in Karapiro, including:


17.9.2004
 Petone had four athletes go to the New Zealand indoor Erg national held in Auckland St Kentigern Collage. Personal bests have been set by three of the four, and every one came home with tiles, including:

National title wins in the Relay for Alysha Pullar and Lisa Rofe, teaming up with Nicola Goss (Palmerston North) and Megan Lunt (Auckland) in the 2000 meters. Another relay team Erin Monique Shelton teaming up with Elyse Pepper (Whakatane) W17 win the 500 meters NEW ZEALAND record 1.41.7the other national titles Erin Monique 1000mtr 3.27.4 300mtr 56.6 100mtr18.5 Mathew Cummings 500mtr 1.32.5.

Petone is a club of champions !!!! (read it and believe it).


15.9.2004
You may find this website of interest. The web site enables you to contact your friends, school, work, and club contacts.
Please add all your Petone Rowing Details !!!     Old Friends NetWork - http://www.oldfriends.co.nz/

14.9.2004
Reminder:
The Petone Rowing Club Opening Day 2004 will be held on the morning of Sunday 26 September 2004.

13.9.2004
Profile of the week: click here to review the profile of Caroline Robertson
You are welcome to email your profile, email to    Petonerowingclub@e-ASL.com.


6.9.2004
Hutt News Article regarding PRC at the Redding Shield Sept 2004  - Click here to review


6.9.2004
The Petone Rowing Club Opening Day 2004 will be held on the morning of Sunday 26 September 2004. More details will be advised shortly. 
Make a note of it in your diary now.


4.9.2004
Congratulations to all members of the club who competed at the Redding Shield and won the regatta by two points from Star Boating Club. 
And congratulations to those members of Star Boating club, Wellington Rowing Club, Porirua Rowing Club and Horowhenua Rowing Club 
who made it a good days racing.     Attached are the Race Results, Click here to review 


3.9.2004
It is official, Two of the Petone Rowing Club members have set world records for the marathon distance of 42.195 km 
you can view Ben Norling,  LWT 19-29 Men 2hr 35min 03 sec - Record listed Concept II Site.  
and Erin Monique Shelton, U19 Women 3hr 0min 45sec -Record listed Concept II Site.  


2.9.2004
The REDDING SHIELD regatta is on this Saturday 4 September 2004 at the Lagoon adjacent to Wellington Rowing Club & Star Boating club. 
Come along and enjoy yourselves and support the crews.


25.8.2004      
Please email to the PRC any rowing photo's of past crews, and memories so we can add them to the web site.
(we will start loading images from 1900 to 2004 from Sept 5th, and need your memories and details.
Please email your photo's too:  Petonerowingclub@e-ASL.com.

23.8.2004      :
Over 100 people attended the PRC evening to watch and support the Olympics.   Excellent turn out....Excellent evening.

19.8.2004
The water at Athens is just fantastic today.  
The entire team through to there respective finals. The first Olympic Regatta for all with the exception of Sonia Waddell.  
This is Mighty River Power transformed onto a lake at its best.


16.8.2004   
Rowing For GOLD,   
You and your family/friends are invited to join the Wellington Rowing Community and watch, the crews go for medals.
on the big screen especially installed for the night.
Location:  THE REGATTA RESTAURANT PETONE ESPLANADE, SATURDAY 21ST AUGUST,    
5 PM (1700 HOURS) TILL LATE.  $15.00/HEAD INCLUDES BAR SNACKS AND NIBBLES.

31.7.2004  
Probable World Records Set at NZ wide Endurance Ergometer Event,
The following times were scored at Petone Rowing Club on 31 July 2004 in the 42.195 km event; 
     
  
 

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